Improvement in malt-kiln floors



P. WEINIG.

Malt-Kiln Floor.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PAUL WEINIG, OF HANAU, PRUSSIA, ASSIGNOR TO FREDERICK W. WOLF,

' OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.l

IMPROVEMENT IN MALT-KIL'N FLOORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 168,911.8, dated October 19, 1875; application led July 17,1875.

To all whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, PAUL WEINIG, of Ha, nau, Prussia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Malt-Kiln Floors, of which the following is a clear, full, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this speciication, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of a section of my iloor. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of same.

My invention has reference to the oors of kilns used in breweries 5 and it consists inconstructing the door in sections and of bladeshaped wires secured in position, as hereinafter described and claimed.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the exact manner in which I have carried it out.

In the drawings, A and B represent the frame-work of a section of my improved floor, with the cross-ties a a riveted securely to hold the frame together and support the iiooring of blade-shaped bars or Wires b b, placed with their edges downward and secured in position, as hereinafter described.

These iioors have heretofore been Iwoven of wire, the round wire of the wire-cloth being pressed after weaving to produce a at surface, or of wire rolled or otherwise compressed into wedge-shaped rails. which rails were perforated and strung together on rods passing through the perforations.

It is evident that the rails must be materially weakened and injured by the holes made through them. I overcome this objection, and by my improvement I not only get a much greater percentage of opening, but secure a much stronger, cheaper, and convenient tloor, and the blade shape of the bars or wires prevents the floor from choking.

By forming my door in sections or blocks,

screening purposes, as also in grain-dryin g apparatus. y

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A malt-kiln oor constructed in sections and consisting of the frame A, cross-ties a a, and blade-shaped rods or wires b b secured by swaging down upon them the metal of the cross-ties, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

l PAUL WEINIG.

Witnesses:

WM. P. WEBsTER, ALBERT J. DE ZEYK. 

